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  • SOCIETY
    FENG Zhi-xin, WANG Bin, LIN Lin
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(4): 88-96. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.04.009
    This study utilizes data from the 2021 China General Social Survey (CGSS), conducted by the China Survey and Data Center at Renmin University. The survey used a randomized scenario experiment to capture respondents' attitudes toward having a second or third child under different conditions: annual family income availability of family care, access to childcare services, and the gender of the existing child. Through the application of Multilevel Logit models, this analysis examines the factors influencing public attitudes and provincial differences regarding additional births. The results show that: 1) After the implementation of the three-child policy, the spatial pattern of the public's attitude towards additional births has changed. 2) Attitudes toward additional births have changed significantly, with a positive correlation between support for having a second child and a third child. 3) The combined care model of "one old and one young" needs to be developed.
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    LI Yu-shen, LIU Ye, ZHANG Xian, DONG Rui
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(3): 21-31. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.03.003
    Creating a favorable living environment for the elderly is essential to build a healthy aging society. This study utilized health, population, and housing data at the subdistrict and community scale from the 7th National Population Census in Shenzhen, along with environmental data obtained from remote-sensing images and open-source maps. Employing, we use various spatial analysis tools, including Censored Least Absolute Deviations (CLAD) Regression and spatial visualization, to investigate the impacts of socioeconomic environment, health service facilities, ecological factors, transportation, and housing conditions on the health of older adults. Our particular emphasis is put on the heterogeneous effects of living environments in older communities. The findings are as follow: 1)Shenzhen exhibits significant spatial heterogeneity in the health status of older adults, with higher health levels observed in in Nanshan, Longgang, and Yantian district. 2) Various factors, including socio-economic conditions, ecological environment, transportation, health service, and housing conditions, significantly influence the health status of the elderly. 3)Through segmented regression analysis, we have identified the heterogeneity in the influence of elderly health within communities built before 2000.
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    LU Zhi-lin, YIN Guan-wen, LUO Cun-jing, REN Jia-min, HU Sai-yin
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(1): 45-52. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.01.006
    The administrative division adjustment involves the redistribution and re-collocation of national territory, political and administrative power, in order to better achieve efficient spatial governance, and economic and social development. Based on the administrative division adjustment in Jinan and Laiwu, this study focuses on the residents' sense of place in Laiwu area towards Jinan city, and uses grounded theory to analyze its multidimensional structure, and the construction process and mechanism. The results demonstrate that: 1) The sense of place under the background of administrative division adjustment can be divided into three dimensions of sense of acquisition, happiness and identity. 2) The construction of sense of acquisition is influenced by residents' perceptions of changes in local autonomy, exclusive support policies for Laiwu area, future prospects of Laiwu, and the perceived convenience of residents' daily life. The construction of sense of happiness is influenced by life satisfaction, emotional experience, and the comparison with neighboring populations. 3) The residents of the Laiwu area have undergone an evolutionary process in their perception of Jinan city, transitioning from a "place in imagination and discourse" to a "place in context", and ultimately to a "place in symbols". 4) The sense of place among residents of the Laiwu area exhibits group heterogeneity, with lower levels among males, individuals with higher educational attainment, and the middleaged and younger demographics.
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    HE Yan, WU Xiao
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2025, 40(1): 53-67. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2025.01.007
    Based on the perspective of "intra-household labor division", this paper conducts an empirical analysis on large low-income residential areas in Nanjing, explores commuting routes of different groups under "multiple situations", compares and interprets the types of restrictions and spatio-temporal response patterns, and further verifies the influencing factors of commuting behavior through a model. The findings indicates: 1) 21 commuting routes were selected from 36 possible situations by three groups of commuting under the interaction of time, space and family division of labor. 2) Different family division of labor mode, the commuter travel space and family division travel participation has different correlation, mainly reflected in the intergenerational division of family labor and other division of labor mode; 3) It shows that the intrahousehold labor division of intermediary effect, such as the family size and constitute the more complex, the more employment, the more likely to trigger the intergenerational division of family model.
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    WANG De, DUAN Yao-min, LI Xin-tian, WEI Dan, MA Li
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(6): 59-69. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.06.008
    This study investigates population migration driven by basic education resources within counties, using data from Shou County to examine migration patterns, characteristics, and factors. Results indicate a concentration of educational migration toward higher-end urban areas within counties, particularly during compulsory education stages, influenced by education quality, urban economic levels, and family conditions. This research sheds light on educational migration patterns within county-level areas, informing urbanization policies and spatial planning strategies. Key findings include: 1) Educational migration forms a "reverse pyramid" population distribution, mainly towards higher-end urban areas within the county, with a significant proportion of migrants in urban areas (14%), followed by development zones (12%), education-focused towns (7%), and general towns (3%). 2) Education migration is concentrated during the first grade of junior high school, with single mothers being the predominant accompanying migrants, often engaging in full-time care. 3) Education migration is influenced by factors such as education resource quality, distance, urban economic levels, and family conditions, with different mechanisms affecting various educational stages.These insights are valuable for crafting county-level urbanization policies and spatial planning strategies, particularly in addressing urban-rural education disparities and optimizing education resource allocation within counties.
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    LIU Ling-hui, ZHANG Ying-xin, ZHOU Jian, ZHANG Xin-ke
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(6): 70-81. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.06.009
    Against the backdrop of the rural revitalization era, the deep emotional connection between individuals and their homeland, known as "homeland attachment", profoundly shapes the behavioral choices of rural college students. The study provides empirical evidence supporting the research hypotheses based on survey data from rural college students. The findings are as follows: First, homeland dependence, a functional attachment, does not influence the willingness of rural college students to give back to their homeland. Second, homeland identity, an emotional attachment, positively influences their willingness to give back, with a greater positive effect on the willingness to contribute intellectual resources than material resources, while it has no impact on the willingness to contribute human resources. Third, homeland dependence positively moderates the impact of homeland identity, with a greater moderating effect on the willingness to contribute material resources than human resources, while it has no moderating effect on the willingness to contribute intellectual resources.
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    CHEN Hao-ran, LUO Shen
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(5): 27-33,108. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.05.004
    Digital labour reshapes the contemporary global labour order. Previous critiques of digital labour have tended to focus on the subjective perspective of the human, neglecting the spatial perspective of the place. This article takes the human-machine-place relationship in the office cubicle as the object of study and draws on German critical theorist Rahel Jaeggi's concept of alienation-appropriation and qualitative research methods to develop relevant theories and case studies to gain a deeper understanding of the internal structure and interaction mechanisms in contemporary digital labour. This study, firstly, finds that there are three actors in the digital labour space: Humans, machines, and place. Multiple coupling and decoupling processes exist between them. In addition, computer-led office cubicles' bondage and employee-led spatial appropriation are the two main processes in the game of digital labour space, and everyday alienation and everyday resistance are intertwined in the digital labour space. Lastly, digital labour space is an important perspective for the critique of digital labour, which is conducive to complementing the study of human-place relations in digital labour, and exploring the relationship between digital labour and digital labour space. The digital labour space critique in this article is an effective complement to the critique of the digital labour subject and is conducive to further exploring the possible forms of emancipation of digital labour from the perspective of Marxist geography.
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    YANG Yun, YAN Ruo-xiao
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(5): 34-43. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.05.005
    The touristic transformation of wet markets is an important part of urban renewal, and it is also a complex process involves multiple actors. Taking Suzhou Shuangta Market as the study site, this paper adopts a grounded theory approach to explore the behavioral logic and internal mechanism of multi-actor participation in the process. The following results emerged. First, five groups of actors create value in specific contexts through dynamic and multi-level service exchange and resource integration. Actors' responses to policy and cultural inheritance constitute the key driving factors of value co-creation. Second, a specific institutional logic is identified. The five actors have played complementary roles in value co-creation, which is characterized as active participation, multi-layered interaction, and multiple beliefs. Third, relying on the effective institutional arrangement formed through multi-actor interaction, the touristic transformation of the market has built a loosely interconnected, mutually beneficial, and dynamically evolving ecological system. Such a system reduces transaction costs while continuously stimulates new rounds of value co-creation and service innovation, thus produces and sustains social value. This study provides an empirical reference for the transformation of wet markets and urban organic renewal.
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    WANG Tian-xin, GE Da-zhuan, LI Jie, YUAN Zi-yi, WANG Xiao-wei
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(4): 85-93,192. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.04.010
    Balancing the supply and demand of residential care facilities is an important task in building an age-friendly society. This study analyzed the spatial characteristics of the supply and demand of residential care facilities in Nanjing based on data from the sixth and seventh national censuses at the street level. Accessibility of residential care facilities in Nanjing was calculated and spatial matching analysis was conducted between accessibility and the proportion of elderly population to study the supply and demand status. The study found that: 1) The aging population in Nanjing increased rapidly from 2010 to 2020, showing a "high—low—high" circular structure pattern from the central city to the suburbs, and the elderly population was concentrated and agglomerating increasingly over the decade; 2) Residential care facilities were more concentrated in the central city, and accessibility rapidly decreased from the central city to the periphery, indicating a significant uneven distribution; 3) The supply and demand of residential care facilities in the central city and main urban areas matched relatively well, while in the suburbs, the supply and demand were not coordinated and local demand could not be met. Based on the analysis and measurement of the supply and demand of residential care facilities, this study provides a basis for optimizing the spatial layout of residential care facilities in Nanjing.
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    SHI Jin-long, LI Gang, ZHAO Yuan-ji, ZHANG Zhao, LI Xin-ze
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(4): 94-105. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.04.011
    Based on data from communities, schools, and community soccer fields in the main urban areas of Xi'an, this study comprehensively applies mathematical statistics, spatial analysis, scenario analysis to explore the multidimensional characteristics and supply-demand relationship of community soccer fields, and proposes suggestions for future optimized development. The study found: 1) Community soccer fields in the main urban area of Xi'an cover three types of location choice. 2) The number of venues began to increase sharply in 2015, with the highest number in Yanta District and the lowest in Beilin District. 3) The distribution of community soccer field sites has a low match with community density. 4) Through a comprehensive comparative analysis of the supply and demand relationship between urban community soccer fields and community residents, the study proposes "Precise incremental construction of community soccer fields as needed + Comprehensive linkage and opening of university soccer fields + Dynamic adjustment and opening of primary and secondary school soccer fields" as optimized development direction.
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    SONG Wei-xuan, CUI Can, YE Ling, LIU Wei-chen
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(3): 25-35. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.03.003
    Under the background of the rapid rise in urban housing prices and the differentiation of the housing market in China, housing conditions can not only reflect family wealth, but also be closely related to the social status of housing owners, the education of future generations and class identity. This paper takes the quantity and level of housing as clustering indices,dividingthe samples into four categories: Landlord class, improvement class, necessity class and houseless class. The social attributes and spatial characteristics of different housing classesare analyzed and compared from the aspects of housing conditions, family structure, education level, occupational incomeand spatial distribution, etc. It is proposed that the joint effects of work unit institution, housing market mechanism, residential culture and spatial function promote the formation and differentiation of housing class in China's big cities. By integrating geographical thinking and spatial elements into traditional housing class theory and carrying out empirical exploration, it is preliminarily verified that the housing class differentiation in big cities objectively exists and continues to intensify
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    LIN Jia-hui, ZENG Guo-jun, ZHANG Xiao-xuan, ZHONG Shu-ru
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(3): 36-43. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.03.004
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    With the intensification of global population mobility, the daily life practice and local meaning construction of transnational immigrants have become new research topics, and diet has become a key lens for insight into the social interaction between immigrants and host countries. This process inevitably has contact and interaction with the host society, and directly contributes to diverse geographical encounters. To this end, this paper raises three research questions: How do the daily dietary practices of transnational immigrants contribute to diverse geographical encounters? What are the results of geographical encounters? What is the mechanism behind it? This paper intends to select Guangzhou as the case, invoke the concept of encounter in geography, and adopt qualitative research methods to focus on the geographical encounter between transnational immigrants and different subjects in the daily dietary practice, and analyze the significance of such encounter for their integration into the host country society, with a view to enriching the relevant research on encounter and migration geography in geography. To provide suggestions for the social integration of transnational immigrants in big cities of China under the background of mobility. The study found that: 1) transnational immigrants interact with the host society in different dietary spaces, promoting diverse geographical encounters. 2) The geographical encounter of transnational immigrants in the public eating space not only promotes the result of social integration, but also deepens the gap between individuals and the host country due to the social and cultural differences between them. 3) The daily diet practices and geographical encounters of transnational immigrants are driven by subjective factors, strengthened by social factors and supported by local factors.
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    MAO Xiao-hong, YANG Cheng-feng, YANG Gang
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(3): 44-53,114. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.03.005
    Based on the data from the 2017 national migrant population dynamic monitoring survey(CMDS), this paper measures the urban psychological integration level of the floating elderly population in prefecturelevel and above cities in China from three aspects: integration willingness, psychological distance and identity. On this basis, multi-scale geographically weighted regression(MGWR) and K-means cluster methods are used to study its spatial differences and influencing factors. The results show that: 1) The level of floating elderly population's urban psychological integration in China is generally high, but its spatial difference is obvious, showing a high level in Sichuan-Chongqing, northwest, northeast areas, and a significant lag in the coastal areas of South China and Middle East. 2) The level of floating elderly population's urban psychological integration is jointly affected by the factors of mobility, family and registered residence and individual behavior at their own level, as well as the public services of the cities where they migrate. However, there were significant spatial heterogeneity and spatial scale differences among different influencing factor. Based on this, the K-means cluster method is used to divide it into four influence areas: The dominant area of household, household registration and behavioral factors, the dominant area of health service factors, the dominant area of behavioral factors and the dominant area of multi-factor co-action, it can provide some basis for making relevant policies according to local conditions.
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    KONG Yu, ZHEN Feng, CHANG En-yu, ZHANG Shan-qi
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(1): 29-39. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.01.004
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    Community participation is an important part of community planning. The built environment plays a significant role in influencing residents' community participation. However, the current research on the impact mechanism of the built environment on residents' community participation is limited. Based on the questionnaire survey data of 33 communities in Nanjing, this paper discusses the impact mechanism of built environment on residents' community participation through structural equation model. The results show that, among the endogenous variables, the objective built environment has no direct effect on residents' community participation, but the objective built environment affects residents' community participation through the intermediary effect of perceived built environment and social capital. In addition, the perceived built environment has a direct effect on residents' community participation, and at the same time, it has an indirect impact on residents' community participation through the intermediary effect of social capital. Regarding the influence of exogenous variables on endogenous variables, there are total effects of community type, gender, annual household income, education, and age on residents' community participation. The results reveal the impact mechanism of community built environment on residents' community participation.
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    GU Zong-ni, LUO Xiao-long
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2024, 39(1): 40-47,112. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2024.01.005
    With the deepening of the aging of society in China, the construction of sustainable elderly care resource system has become an important action to actively deal with the increasing number of aging population. The spatial matching of elderly care facilities not only needs to consider the number of facilities, but also combines service quality, as well as multiple service functions such as medical treatment and entertainment. According to the factors of healthcare and elderly care, this paper develops an index of elderly care development level accounting for the quantity, capacity, diversity and the medical factors. This study takes 95 districts and counties of Jiangsu province as the study area and assesses the spatial distribution of pension resources. The Gini coefficient and spatial autocorrelation analysis are used to study the heterogeneity in the elderly care development level among districts and counties, and the spatial regression model is used to explore impact of the health factors. The results showed that:1) High administrative level and economically developed districts and counties have certain advantages in the development level of elderly care facilities because of their perfect medical facility system. 2) There is a spatial mismatch between the development level of elderly care facilities and the degree of aging in districts and counties. 3) Health facilities play a significant role in promoting the development level of pension facilities.
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    LU Ting-ting, HUANG Hui-ning, CUI Can
    Space of relative deprivation has been a focal point in researching socio-spatial segregation. To cope with relative deprivation, a series of urban policies have been implemented to promote housing mix across different countries and regions. However, whether housing mix can act as a solution to address the increased socio-spatial segregation remains a debatable topic in the latest geographical studies. Against this background, this research investigates the relationship between housing mix and deprivation at the neighbourhood level, from which to contribute a more nuanced understanding of the influencing mechanisms of relative deprivation. Three theoretical lenses are introduced, elucidating mechanisms of socio-spatial segregation from social, economic and instructional dimensions. In this research, data from the six Census of Shanghai was employed, covering 5432 spatial units of neighbourhoods. Three main conclusions can be drawn from our results: first, the spatial distribution of relative deprivation at the citywide level presents a "sandwich" pattern of "high-low-high", with the highly deprived spaces confined to the centre and the periphery; second, with demographic, socioeconomic and geographical factors held constant, housing mix is negatively correlated with the neighbourhood deprivation level; and third, housing tenure types are the core factors that underscore the processes of socio-spatial segregation. Meanwhile, urban villages, peripheral villages, and affordable rental housing are three types of relatively deprived space.
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    ZHOU Rong
    Off-site elderly care is of great value to solve the elderly care problem derived from negative population growth. By constructing a theoretical framework for the development of off-site elderly care, and using kernel density analysis, geographical detector, geographical weighted regression and other methods, this paper describes the spatial and temporal evolution pattern of off-site elderly care in the Yangtze River Delta from 2005 to 2020, summarizes the regional differentiation characteristics of the development of off-site elderly care, and reveals the mechanism of its interaction with environmental, cultural and social factors. The results show that: 1) The overall development direction of the off-site elderly care in the Yangtze River Delta is represented by the transformation from quantitative growth to structural optimization and specialty cultivation. 2) The factors affecting the off-site elderly care can be comprehensively identified from the three dimensions of environmental comfort, social comfort and cultural comfort. Among them, medical resources and transportation conditions are the leading factors for spatial differentiation of off-site elderly care in the Yangtze River Delta, followed by social openness and natural scenery, and the influence of traditional cultural resources and climate conditions is relatively weak. 3) The effects and pathways of each factor have spatial heterogeneity.
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    CHEN Wen-ting, CHEN Hai, LIU Di, GENG Tian-wei, SHI Jin-xin
    Improving farmers' well-being is the ultimate goal of rural revitalization and one of the key issues for sustainable rural development. Community environmental characteristics and individual socioeconomic characteristics are the main sources of influencing farmers' subjective well-being. Taking Luochuan county of Shaanxi province in the Loess Gully Region as a study area, the farmers' subjective well-being was evaluated from the cognitive dimension and emotional dimension, which is very important to improve the scientificity of the research on farmers' subjective well-being. At the same time, the impact of the communities' natural environment, social environment, and built environment on residents' subjective well-being was explored based on the multi-level model. Finally, the way to improve the subjective well-being of residents in the study area was proposed based on the combination of top-down and bottom-up perspectives. The results were as follows: 1) the mean value of farmers' subjective well-being was 0.512, and age, income level and health status were significantly positively correlated with farmers' subjective well-being. 2) The communities' environment contributed 18.57 % of the variation in subjective well-being. 3) There are two main ways to improve the subjective well-being of local residents.
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    QIAO Hao-hao, WANG Chao-hui, HU Yun-yun, GAO Yang, YIN Peng
    Rural social relations is one of the breakthrough points of rural revitalization strategy research. This research analyzes the process and occurrence mechanism of the reconstruction of rural social relations embedded in tourism, and discusses the general rules of the reconstruction of rural social relations. The results show that: 1) the social relations in the tourism embedded rural areas are becoming "de-emotionalized" and "contracted", transforming from the "differential pattern" dominated by kinship and geography to the "network pattern" dominated by "human-land-industry-flow"; 2) the development of rural tourism accelerates the renewal and reorganization of various elements, breaks the traditional social communication mode and social relationship network, promotes the transformation of the social relationship pattern from the "agricultural production community" to the "tourism service community" embedded in tourism, and promotes the reconstruction of rural social relations; 3) the general logic and reconstructive mechanism of the "top-down" and "bottom-up" tourism-embedded rural social relations reconstruction process have commonality, and the basic, intrinsic, facilitating, innovative and regulating dynamics work together in the interaction and dynamic coupling. The research proposes a general logical process and the occurrence mechanism for the reconstruction of rural social relations after tourism embedding, with a view to providing directions and references for the transformation and development of tourism-embedded villages, social governance capacity and the improvement of rural civilization.
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    TA Na, CHAI Yan-wei
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(3): 29-36. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.03.004
    We believe that time rhythm in the neighborhood is related to neighborhood vitality and significantly impacts social interaction and a sense of belonging. This paper explores the spatial, social, and emotional significance of neighborhood time rhythm on the construction of neighborhood living circles from a temporal-spatial behavioral perspective regarding neighborhood vitality, neighborhood belonging, and social interaction. Furthermore, based on the theoretical framework, this paper draws attention to the temporal dimensions of activities in and around neighborhoods. Based on an activity-travel survey in suburban Beijing in 2012, this paper explores residents' activity participation around neighborhoods and its influential factors from a time-geographic perspective. First, it investigates how residents participate in non-work out-of-home activities around neighborhoods, mainly how they conduct these activities during 24 hours. It finds that the overall level of neighborhood activities is relatively low. And there are temporal and spatial differentiation, activity type differentiation, and group differentiation in neighborhood time rhythm. Temporal differentiation is reflected in the change of rhythm of residents' activity time within a day and a week.
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    ZHOU Pei-ling, HU Zhen, LIU Kun
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(3): 37-46. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.03.005
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    The impact of built environment on individual health behaviors has been an important issue in urban geography for decades. This study considers the concept of project as a part of the spatio-temporal behavior approach to further understand the impacts of built environment on individual health behaviors. We first suggest transitions on research circumstance, approaches, and scales in current time geography studies, and then propose new analysis methods, new visualization methods and new index systems for spatiotemporal health behavior studies, by which a spatio-temporal behavior research framework is proposed. Based on this new framework, three future research directions are pointed out: First, the disparities between health projects and health behaviors; second, the role of built environment in the dynamic relationships between short-term and long-term project revision; third, the role of built environment in the negotiation between health project and other individual/organization projects. This study expands the scope of time geography in health behavior studies.
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    Yu Yue, Li Gang, Jin An-nan, Huang Yu-shan, Wang Juan
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(3): 47-57. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.03.006
    When trafficked children seeking their relatives, they usually recall their memories of their hometown, it is a process to establish the place attachment with their hometown and original family, and worth paying attention. We use case studies, text analysis and qualitative analysis,based on the information of child’s family search experience, and remote sensing images of the child's hometown, to explore the types and characteristics of child's hometown memory elements and her life experiences after being trafficked, and to reveal the impact on child to seeking her relatives. The results indicate that: 1) The life course of trafficked child mainly goes through two stages: before being trafficked and after being trafficked. 2) Before being trafficked, child's memories are mostly including daily life scenes and emotional memories, including local knowledge and family knowledge, to help identify the hometown and native family of trafficked child. 3) After child was trafficked, at first she lived in her adoptive family, then she got married and started living in her own family.
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    JIANG Yu-pei, ZHEN Feng, ZHANG Zhen-long
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    Studies that take the coordination of behavior and the environment in the community life circle as the overall goal and reveal the driving influence of the intrinsic attributes of the population are rarely involved. Therefore, this study constructs the theoretical analysis framework and indicator system, carries out empirical analysis. The study found that:1) Frequency, duration, and activity space distance can form important dimensions for evaluating leisure walking level. Accessibility, cleanliness, availability, and safety can describe the quality of activity environment. 2) There are significant differences in the coordination level between leisure walking and activity environments among different individuals. 3) Middle-aged and elderly people, retirees, highly educated people, overweight people and residents with close relationships with neighbors are more likely to achieve a higher level of coordination, while residents with larger family populations and higher individual incomes tend to be at a lower level of coordination. 4) Finally, a governance strategy for the coordination of leisure walking and the activity environment is proposed.
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    WANG Ai, FU Wei, LU Lin, XIA Yong-jiu
    Based on the perspective of living circles, this paper analyzes the spatial allocation of public service facilities and puts forward the planning scheme of facility layout, which is not only conducive to the realization of spatial justice of public service allocation, but also a positive response to the development concept of "people's cities for the people". Based on the perspective of living circles and taking the downtown area of Hefei as an example, this paper first explores the distribution patterns and supply levels of public service facilities by means of kernel density analysis and network analysis and, in turn, analyzes the matching between public service facilities and the distribution of population. Finally, the planning path of facility configuration is proposed based on the location-allocation model (L-A). The study shows that:1) All kinds of facilities present a core-edge spatial distribution pattern and saliently differentiated layers of distribution, and there are obvious differences between the spatial agglomeration levels of inter-regional and different types of service facilities; 2) The coverage rates of facilities varies significantly among different residential areas, and the scope of coverage is generally small. 3) There are significant spatial differences in the adaptability of public service facilities in the living circles in different regions, and the proportion of adaptable living circles for the overall four types of facilities is not high; 4) Based on the minimization facility model, the spatial configuration scheme of various facilities is calculated and simulated
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    CAO Xiao-jin, LIU Chun-hui, YU Si-qi
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(2): 69-78. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.02.009
    Taking the typical old community in Xuzhou as an example, this paper uses qualitative methods such as participatory observation, video recording and in-depth interview to deal with the argument that decontext-free criticism of representations and that non-representations are hard to get rid of. The reciprocal mechanism between embodied practice and local identity is explored from a comprehensive perspective beyond representation. The research found that: 1) In scenes ranging from individual to community scale, such as self-living, hiding at home, parent-child coexistence and daily gathering, residents adopt static practices with incomplete consciousness or perceive human-land relationship with sensory systems such as audiovisual touch. 2) The acquaintance society in traditional communities is gradually dissolved under the flow of modernity, and the intimate space carrying the neighborhood relationship is constantly eroded. 3) On the one hand, the local identity mechanism of the old community is shaped by the physical practice of residents' daily life.
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    ZHOU Jun-jun, LI Gang, HONG Dan-dan, XU Feng, XU Jia-hui, YU Yue
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(2): 79-87. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.02.010
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    Based on the case data obtained from field investigation and online interview, this paper revealed the pressure, cognition, structure, function, risk of the trafficked children's biological family under the perspective of socio-ecological system. The results indicate that: Trafficking incident has a strong impact on family in a short time, while the families began to look for the child until it was found, the multiple factors in the process have a lasting impact on family for a long time. At the micro scale, the pressure faced by family members and the concept cognition affect the changes of the family. At the mesoscale, trafficking destroys the stability of family, resulting in a discrete, aggregated and intermediate family structure, which directly led to the decline of the economic function, health care function, nurturing function and emotional function of the family. At the macro scale, due to the different degree of disturbance of the family by external factors, the families experienced different risk stages, and their resilience paths were also different in each stages, presenting nonlinear and heterogeneous characteristics.
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    HUANG Xu, YU Ping, YANG Zhenshan, TAN Luojian, TANG Ruien, MA Jingyi
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(1): 36-43. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.01.005
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    Based on the theoretical and conceptual frameworks of sense of place, meaning of place and neighborhood governance, this paper takes Rugao East Street in Jiangsu Province as a typical case, and uses questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to explore the role of Rugao East Street, an old city neighborhood, in shaping the sense of place from the perspective of different subjects. Specifically, this paper categorizes the sense of place of different subjects into three types: Rrooted, creative and caring sense of place. This is connected to the three main dimensions of sense of place (place dependency, place identity, and place attachment) in the existing literature. First, when place dependence plays a dominant role, individuals have strong functional ties to place, resulting in a rooted sense of place represented by local residents, with a focus on blood ties, social networks, and a sense of belonging. Second, when place identity dominates the formation of sense of place, individuals have more of a process of integration and adaptation to place; in this process, they continuously evaluate place and enrich and improve their own sense of place, resulting in a creative sense of place represented by merchants, which mainly involves aesthetics, embodied experience and private space. In addition, the sense of place formed by place attachment is a caring sense of place, which is different from that of local residents and merchants, and is mainly related to emotional concern, social interaction and familiarity.
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    CHENG Jia-qi, HU Hong, SHU Tian-yuan
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(1): 44-55. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.01.006
    Human-oriented research on dynamic blue-green spatial quality differences has received increasing attention from academic community in recent years. First, most studies focus on analyzing the fairness of residents with different incomes in accessing blue-green space, but rarely cross-discuss the blue-green space quality of residents of different community types and income levels. Second, the existing related research mostly evaluate blue-green space quality based on the buffer area of communities (residential locations) which are static and limited , but seldom compares the quality of blue-green space around the activity paths of residents. Third, the quality of blue space and green space have different effects on residents' physical and mental health, and it is necessary to measure them respectively. From the perspective of urban residential differentiation, the article takes the blue-green space quality of different income groups living in unit communities, traditional communities, urban villages, social housing and commercial housing communities in the central city of Nanjing as the research objects. The study first examines the qualities of blue-green space around the activity locations and travel paths of the research objects, and then studies the influence mechanism of blue-green space qualities on the residents' environmental perception. The study shows that, based on the measurement of activity space, the spatial contact quality, landscape ecological quality and health service quality of blue-green space show significant differences, and the advantages of blue-green space for different types of community residents shows different aspects in three quality dimensions.
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    YIN Jie, WANG Jing-ya
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(5): 71-79. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.05.009
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    Based on the perspective of Lefebvre's spatial ternary theory, taking the recreational business district of Great Tang All Day Mall in Xi'an as an example, using the analysis method of urban regime theory, this paper interprets the production mechanism of the recreational business district space and the interactions between participants in the urban regime of Great Tang All Day Mall. It is found that the spatial ternary theory can be used to analyze the spatial production process of recreational business district. The representations of space are the process of constructing symbolic space led by the government-business growth coalition. The social relationship in the spaces of representation is expressed as the interactive relationship among the three participants in the developmental urban regime. Further more, social media in the Internet age has become a new way for the public to participate in the bargaining of urban regime. The spatial practice is manifested in the transformation of regional production relations and the scale transition of the influence of recreational business district. The above three aspects of space production are the dialectical unity of the Trinity. The study also found that in the spatial type of recreational business district, the developmental urban regime resulted in the public's response to the symbolic spatial discipline being mainly acceptance rather than resistance.
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    TAN Qin-xin, ZHANG Yan, CHAI Yan-wei
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(5): 80-88. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.05.010
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    The sudden COVID-19 pandemic has posed a great challenge to residents' daily activities and community governance. Community as an important space for residents' daily life, where the pocket of local orders have been changed under COVID-19. This paper based on the concept of new time-geography and on the first hand retrospective diary survey, in-depth interviews data, as well as news reports from community newspaper during the different stages of the COVID-19, studies the changing spatial-temporal characteristics of community workers' daily activities before, under and after the COVID-19. In addition, through analyzing the interweaving of community workers' individual work project and community organizational project of epidemic prevention and control, we can see the changes of the pocket of local orders of community and its impact on residents' daily activities. The results showed that the community organizational project of epidemic prevention and control such as epidemic prevention publicity and mobilization, risk investigation and reporting, closed management and management of personnel returning to Beijing have been added, and were significantly adjusted in different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    GUAN Ruo-chen, ZHEN Feng, XI Guang-liang, LI Zhi-xuan
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(5): 89-96. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.05.011
    In the era of smart society, online services have gradually become an important part of the daily life of the general public, which profoundly affects the life, work and travel methods of urban residents. Mobile Internet applications (APPs) have gradually become an important part of residents' daily life due to their convenience, ease of use and ultra-high coverage, providing residents with rich and diverse functional experiences for their work, life and travel modes. Based on mobile phone signaling data and other multi-source data, the paper analyzes the characteristics of mobile phone APP use by residents of different age groups, and then summarizes the use intensity distribution characteristics of the three types of APP for leisure and entertainment, online shopping and daily services. The results show that: 1) Recreation and entertainment, online shopping and life services have become the types of residents who frequently use APPs, and different age groups have different preferences for the types of APPs. 2) The high-use intensity clusters of the three types of APPs are basically consistent with the distribution of the city center, mainly distributed in Commercial agglomeration areas, large residential centers, universities, scenic spots and other surrounding communities follow the innovation diffusion hypothesis, but do not conform to the efficiency hypothesis; 3) There are differences in the urban distribution hotspots of different age groups, and they are reflected in the types of special residential areas such as affordable housing.
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    SONG Zong-yuan, LIU Yun-gang, AN Ning, ZHAO Qi-kang
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(4): 65-74. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.04.008
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    Starting from the core concept of "sense of place", this paper uses comprehensive research methods, such as questionnaire surveys, participatory observations and interviews, to systematically evaluate the characteristics of African migrants' urban perception of Guangzhou who are living and working in Guangzhou. Based on the five-dimensional sense of place evaluation system proposed by this study, the main conclusions of this article are as follows: 1) In the evaluation of the five dimensions of African migrants' sense of place in Guangzhou, this paper shows that there are positive as well as negative perceptual intensity among the five dimensions. Theoverall characteristics according to positive degree is presented as "place satisfaction > place dependence >place trust > place attachment > place identity"; 2) Each one of the five dimensions of sense of place presented by this paper has different effect towards African migrants' sense of place to Guangzhou. 3) The formation path of the negative sense of place of African migrants in Guangzhou is mainly formed through their exchange and interaction with Guangzhou on the spiritual and mental level. 4) Although there is a difference between a positive and a negative sense of place, the boundary between them is not very obvious, and there is relatively a strong rheological features among them.
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    WU Chong, YU Ya-fang, ZHANG Jian-xin
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(4): 75-86. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.04.009
    Under the background of Cultural Confidence, China has promoted heritage activation and heritage tourism. The protection and utilization of Great Relics not only affects the reconstruction of regional spatial functions, but also involves the profound adjustment of social relations in rural areas. This study takes five Great Relics areas in Guanzhong as an example, which has a large number of Great Relics and dense distribution. In order to promote the scientific transformation of rural areas around Great Relics, we have set up the research framework of rural territorial function from the perspective of social space. Drawing on the theory of space production, we have constructed a dialectical analysis framework that includes social and spatial dimensions.This study constructs the index system from the social and the spatial dimensions. Then this paper analyzes the causes of functional structure of rural area around Great relics with socio-spatial dialectics method. This research finds that there are eight main factors of social space in rural areas around the Great Relics, and the spatial distribution of each main factor shows typical differentiation characteristics.
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    ZHANG Yi-nuo, LU Zi, ZHANG Yu-chen, FENG Fu-jing
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(4): 87-94. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.04.010
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    A new media community is emerging in the context of social networks. The information dissemination based on networked individuals activates the user interaction relationship, which is related to each other in daily life and forms a common cultural sustaining force between several individuals or communities, resulting in a community of social life with close interaction. This community of networked individuals is called personal community. Based on the investigation of social network usage and social network services, this paper explores the formation and spatial organization of the behavior space in personal community from some subtle signs according to the actor scenario-analysis method. According to the thinking method of future geography, this paper also presents and imagines the future change of the behavior space of personal community. Based on this, it reveals the power of the future and presents the main clues for the building of its new order. It is concluded that: 1) The lean and asynchronous information interaction provided by social networks leads the formation, updating and integration of the backspace of personal communities, which is a process of connecting with the real geographic community and making a rational leap to the virtual community and reconstructing its spatial system. 2) The behavior space of actors in personal community originates from self-presentation and is determined by the audience, which exists in the form of "second degree visibility" in most cases. 3) Personal social network space is different from the information and communication space in the past.
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    HOU Xue-feng, TAO Wei, REN Jian-zao
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(3): 30-38,117. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.03.004
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    The COVID-19 prevention and control in border areas is influenced by the discourse and practice of different actors on multiple scales, and its effectiveness is crucial to the success of the national epidemic prevention and control. In this paper, taking Ruili, a border city in Yunnan Province as an example, using the methods of discourse analysis and network interview. Based on the scale analysis framework, this paper makes an in-depth analysis of the epidemic prevention and control in the border areas of Ruili from three aspects: Theorizing scale, rhetorics of scale, scales of praxis. The results show that: In terms of theorizing scale, national and local scale entities pushed the borders of epidemic prevention and control to extend inward, and realized the reproduction of material borders; In terms of rhetorics of scale, the authorities use scale discourse to show the will of the state in epidemic prevention and control, which greatly condenses the spiritual boundary of people from all walks of life, and thus weakens the barriers caused by material border to people; In terms of scales of praxis, the government's top-down epidemic control policies and the general public's bottom-up prevention and control measures have constructed the material-human boundary layer by layer, forming a dual boundary landscape, it has effectively developed and consolidated China's inward borders.
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    XIANG Ke-heng, YU Yue, HUNG Kam
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(3): 39-49. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.03.005
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    Research on gay tourism has mainly focused on Western countries such as Europe and the United States, and relatively little is known about the tourism behavior and psychology of gay tourists in Asia. Given the unique social norms and relatively conservative stance of Asian cultures, the tourism experience and psychology of Asian gay tourists may be different from that of the West, and the Asian gay tourist Psychological and behavioral changes and bodily sensory perceptions of Asian gay tourists have also become a neglected segmentation topic in existing research. This study investigated the identity reconstruction and embodied experiences of Chinese gay tourists using a qualitative approach. Based on 16 diaries and 6 in-depth interviews with Chinese gay tourists, our findings show that: 1) The narrative process of identity and embodied experience of Chinese gay tourists to Thailand consists of identity indecision and bodily expectation, identity and bodily experience adaptation, identity and embodied experience struggle, identity reinforcement and physical and mental burnout regulation, identity convergence and embodied perception; 2) The narrative construction space of identity and embodied experience in Chinese gay and lesbian travel to Thailand provides a transformation-oriented path of identity-body experience through which Chinese gay and lesbian tourists adjust their self-identity and adapt to the corresponding bodily sensory experience and bodily sociological context.
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    ZHANG Xin-yuan, ZHANG Qiang, HAN Jian-lei, TONG Qian
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(3): 50-59. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.03.006
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    In recent years, under the background of Rural Revitalization Strategy in China, the home stay industry has developed vigorously. The integration of the homestays and local community is not only the way for homestays to comply with the market development, but also the basis for the benefits of local community. How to deal with the harmonious symbiotic relationship between homestays and local communities and how to improve the sustainable development of homestays are the urgent problems faced by the homestay research in mainland China. But at present, the research on homestay in mainland China is still in the exploratory stage, the depth and pertinence of the research topics are weak, and the theoretical research is divorced from the practical development. So it is urgent to analyze the interactive relationship and matching mode between homestays and their dependent environment. This study conducts case studies on the interaction and symbiotic relationship between homestays and local communities. We found that there are four typical modes of interaction between them: Social shallow interaction, participatory shallow interaction, value-sharing deep interaction and value co-creation deep interaction. The four types lead to four symbiotic relationships: Parasitic point symbiotic, commensalism, dissymmetry mutualism and symmetry mutualism.
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    ZENG Guo-jun, WU Jie, WANG Long-jie
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(2): 77-84. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.02.010
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    Body is an important lens to observe and interpret social cultural phenomena. Based on the geography of body, to explore the relationship between the other bodies and urban spaces can provide a useful perspective for understanding the integration of marginalized groups and urban public spaces. As a kind of Other who are discrepant with dominant cultures, many homelessness spend the night at McDonald's and are called McSleepers. Based on the contradictory social phenomenon, this paper takes certain McDonald's in Zhuhai as an example, through observation and interview, from the perspective of geography of body, discusses otherness of the physical characteristics of McSleepers, and how they negotiate with and integrate into the food spaces through physical practice, so as to analyze the process mechanism of marginalized groups' integration into urban public spaces. This study argues that 1) The physical characteristics of McSleepers are distinctly otherness, which is embodied in both physical body and practical body; 2) McSleepers negotiate with the food spaces through physical bodily practice (temporal and spatial segregation) and non-physical bodily practice (the construction of self-identity, management and constraints within the group, build emotional connections with dominant groups), so as to achieve de-otherness and integration into food spaces in particular time and space. This article establishes a theoretical analysis framework of the interaction between the other bodies and the urban public spaces, and complements the theories of the geography of body in terms of bodily practices.
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    ZHANG Wei, YANG Yong-chun, QIN Zhao-xiang, SHI Kun-bo
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(2): 85-93. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.02.011
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    Under the guidance of the new ideas of ethnic work, inter ethnic residential integration has become an intuitive and key spatial form of "ethnicr embedded community". This paper attempts to explore the heterogeneity within the ethnic group by combining with the theory of social representation. Taking the Mongolian immigrants in Hohhot as the research object, this paper uses the methods of questionnaire survey to obtain the original data, and uses the methods of multi group SEM analysis to explore the differences in the willingness of Mongolian residents from different sources to live in integration and its influencing factors. The results show that:1) The integration willingness of the immigrants in Hohhot-Baotou-Ordos urban agglomeration is the highest, followed by that in Horqin mixed farming and animal husbandry area, while that in Xilinguole animal husbandry area is relatively low, but there is no significant differentiation; 2) Social and economic status, cultural adaptation, cultural retention, housing preference and other factors have differences in the path and degree of influence on the residential integration of Mongolian immigrants from different sources.
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    WANG Jie-jing, ZHU Wei, LIU Tao
    HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2022, 37(1): 18-27. https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.01.003
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    Based on the survey data of Beijing in 2018, this study explores the effects of spatial accessibility to public services, social capital and their interaction effects on residents' mental well-being, as well as the differences of the impacts between new citizens and local citizens. The multi-level regression models and spatial analysis methods are employed to analyze both the direct and moderator effects of these factors on mental well-being of residents. We found that the degree of spatial accessibility to public services is negatively associated with the mental well-being of residents, which is more prominent in the group of new citizens. The tightness of social networks and the ability of getting financial support from social networks have significant positive effects on mental well-being. The differences of the effects, however, do not exist between new citizens and local citizens. The scale and tightness of social networks exacerbate the effect of spatial accessibility to public services on mental health. These results echo the propositions of the social ecological models of health promotion, which emphasize that the interrelationships among environmental settings (e.g. the spatial accessibility to public services) and personal attributes (e.g. social capital) can influence a variety of health outcomes, including the mental well-being.